The first thing I would so is download the binaries for the newest version of Star Office at openoffice.org. Version 6 is A LOT faster than previous versions and is not such a memory hog. In my opinion, you can't go wrong with either an athlon (although I have heard some rumors of problems) or a pentium III. I would certainly stay away from the pentium 4 for now. Seth -----Original Message----- From: Donald G. Knecht [mailto:msspal@gbso.net] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 9:05 PM To: 'suse-linux-e@suse.com' Subject: [SLE] new system advise hey i see this question asked a lot but since i wasn't doing an upgrade at the time i really didn't pay much attention, i need to build a new i386 home office workstation, OS of course would be SuSE-Linux, now what to buy? i use a p200 currently, and usually do most of my work in staroffice, gimp, and netscrap,(no apache, servers or networking for that matter) the first two get really slow, gimp, usually when a lot of images are open or really big, staroffice just seems to be slow always.....i currently have a voodoo3 and 128mb ram which has helped, but now i can afford a faster processor/system. advise, thoughts, and ideas welcome specifically, what are the pros/cons of Athlon, Duron vs. Celeron, Pentium II, III TIA, don -- proud Linux user since kernel 1.1.54 icq#42235604 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq